I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
HERMANN HESSEYou must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
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Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet
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Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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It taught him how to listen — how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.
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A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
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